An Irish EU3 Dynasty - Complete!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Slow and Steady



Mar 24 - My explorer has passed away

Apr 23 - I order a Post Office in Lancashire

May 2 - Rebels in Ayrshire

May 14 - Defeated

June 11 - Innu expands and more are sent

I figured out why Portugal likes Unami. 1500 natives with no aggressiveness means you can colonize it and there is no chance of an uprising (unless another pays for it)

Sept 1 - I have 2 Carracks on a patrol around all of our colonies to keep off pirates and help get us the tarriffs.

Oct 1 - Naval Supplies in Labrador

Oct 7 - Austria annexes Switzerland

I am still the Papal Controller, and I can choose to Excommunicate again. Who do I want to take out? No one really. Austria is waaaaaay too big, so I’d like to do them but they are ruled by a Regency Council right now, so there is no one to hammer.


I think I should have taken the land from England instead of vassalization.

I can lift Excommunication for England

I Excommunicate Sweden

Oct 13 - Innu expands and I send in more colonists

Feb 14, 1494 - Expansion of Innu

Mar 1, Gloucestershire and Marches are now cores. Government tech increase

Mar 6 - I extend the Road Network in Lancashire. This costs me a magistrate.

+3% local tax, +0.05 magistrates annually, extra trade and manpower too


Want to know something interesting? The Tyrone O’Neills are in the throne of France, Sweden, Oldenburg, Aragon and Brabant. Sort of like the Hapsburgs on a smaller scale.


June 27 - Innu expands and becomes a major colony, it gets an extra manpower and some manpower from the mission. Our new mission is to have a larger army than Portugal which is actually very doable.



Innu - I order a fort here. 1602 Irish Catholics, fishers, 5.07 ducats annually


I order a workshop in Gloucestershire

July 1 - Our Naval advisor has died. I do not get another just yet.

Aug 25 - Mission accomplished. The next one is Fortify Innu, which I am working on anyway

Sept 7 - Today we lost all of our Trade Stations because the Papal States captured Venice, and there are no more Trade Leagues to jump into.

[Tellistto]

So since there is a Tyrone O'Neill on the throne in Sweden, does that mean you excommunicated a relative? Heh.

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Tellistto

So since there is a Tyrone O'Neill on the throne in Sweden, does that mean you excommunicated a relative? Heh.

Tell

Yup

[Abe Sargent]

Protestants, Explorers and Regents



Jan 16, 1495 - Burgundy has The Protestant Reformation

The Papacy has been wrested from my control by the Papal States, they have 4 cardinals and me 3.

Burgundy has switched religions and Bourgogne has gone Protestant.

Jan 18 - Burgundy has Refused Religious Unity by Bohemia and the HRE.

Feb 7 - Castille take Defender of the Faith

May 4 - Our King has passed. He did a lot for us. We go into Regency because the heir, Conchobhar O’Neill is 14.

June 1 - Flanders declares independence from Burgundy

RM with Flanders, Brabant, Milan, France, and Auvergne

June 28 - We finish the Fortify Mission in Innu. The next mission is Turn Labrador into a City. I send in colonists.

While waiting for a new advisor, I find a three star Navigator which allows me to expand my colonial range even more. What is available now?

8 new provinces open up. I send colonist to Acadia and Stadacona. Stadacona has 5 tax value and it is deep in Canadian area off the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Acadia has 3 tax value ad straight land routes to my two island provinces in Epekwitk and Unamakik.I have a 72% chance of success in Acadia and 78.4 in Stadacona.

Aug 1 - Government tech increase

I build a new Palace

Aug 14 - Rm with Scotland

Oct 1 - Production Tech increase. I can change a Slider and I decide to go with:

Centralization. Local Pretender in Innu. I launch my navy and arny from Beothuk.


Oct 7 - Rm with Northumberland

Oct 29 - Rebels killed

Nov 5 - Labrador expandsador

Nov 22 - Colony established in Acadia

Nov 28 - Stadacona also

Our ruler is now 16.

Conchobhar O’Neill with Admin 7, Mil 3, and Dip 5. His heir is his Brother Brian, age 11, strong

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Spread



Feb 8, 1496 - RM with England, Northumberland

July 3 - Rm with Castille

July 23 - Workshop in Wessex and Cornwall

Sept 3 - Oldenburg rejects RM offer

Oct 6 - Rm with Oldenburg.

Oct 8 - Rebellion in Wessex

Nov 11 =- Rebels annihilated

Dec 5 - I build a Road Network in Yorkshire

Dec 16 - Castille annexed Benin, Oyo, and other African nations

Dec 23 - I send my Conquistador inland from Innu and have discovered Quebec, a Wasteland

Feb 19, 1497 - Rebels spilled over from Burgundy into Auvergne, so I ask for Military Access from France and they grant it, so I can put an army there and kill the rebels of my vassal

Apr 1 - Both Unamakik and Epekwitk are now full cities.

Apr 20 - We won in Auvergne



Here are our new provinces

Unamakik: Building a fort, 7.42 ducats sent to us in the fur trade by 1200 Irish Catholics This is an island next to another island, and has a straight crossing to Acadia.

Epekwitk - Also building a fort and also Irish, Catholic and fur. 1500 people, 7.42 ducats made for us Also a straight to Acadia



Apr 30 - France reports that the spread of Protestanism happened to them.

Where are the Protestants on the map? Auvergne, Poitou, both provinces of Auvergne, my vassal, Lyonnais, Rouergue, Nevers, Brunswick, and Wurttemburg,


May 11 Auvergne has converted to Protestant. This drops our relations a bunch.

[Abe Sargent]

Expansion Slowly



July 2 - Labrador expands and I send in more.

Oct 8 - Sweden is getting the Reformation Branches Out. They have converted to Reformed.

Reformed already? Crazy However, Sweden is now not excommunicated anymore

Nov 9 - Labrador expands and I send inmore

Jan 1, 1498 - Scotland has converted to Reformed, as has their province of Highlands, and our realtions drop.

Feb 4 - Scotland and Auvergne rejoin my allaince when I make them alliance offers

Mar 4 - Post Office in Yorkshire

Mar 19 - Labrador expands and I send one more set in

Mar 24 - Labrador is now Reformed. Weird.

Apr 20 - Sweden is having Religious Civil Disorder

May 2 - I have sent a few gifts to my vassal Auvergne

May 10 = Castille annexed Kongo

July 28 - Labrador expands. They are Catholic again. When a colony of another religion gets colonists, it changes to the new religion. That way, you can “convert” colonies captured from other powers rather quickly.

I fund some Norweigan Nationalists in Orkney since Sweden moved away. Succ (87%) not discovered (only 33% of it)

Nov 1 - Acadia attacked by savages. I send in more just to buffer the colony.

Dec 1- Labrador now a full city, and the mission complete


Labrador: 1500 Irish Catholics, Naval Supplies, I order a level fort here, 3.7 ducats, next to Innu.


Our newest mission is to Discover Cape Verde. I make an Explorer.

Feb 1, 1499 - I send colonists to Abnaki

Mar 27 - Acadia expands

June 3 - Colonist send to Micmac. Post Office in Cumbria

Jun 8 - We discover Cape Verde and I get 5 colonists, I am asked to discover Komi, which I am told is in Europe?

Colonists to Stadacona

July 1 - New colony in Abnaki.

July 11 - Sweden lands troops in Orkney

Aug 2 - The Canarias converts to Reformed

Sept 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Now where can I colonize?

4 more places

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 14, 1499 - 100 Year review:


Ireland has 18 European provinces, 3 vassals, 8 colonies that have become city, and 3 colonies


Ireland, all are Catholic, Irish

Ulster - 2295, 17.06 ducats, workshop, temple, grain

Connaught - 3780, 8.5 ducats, fish

Munster - 3719, 12.59 ducats, fish, temple

Meath - 6232, 12.93, temple, grain

Leinster - 4532, fish, 10.08 Ducats


Britain Provinces,all are Catholic


Glamorgan -Welsh, 2876, iron, 10.26 ducats, temple

Gwynedd - Welsh, 1978, fish, 8.43ducats

Cornwall - Welsh, 18614, copper, 19.28 ducats, 4.4% rebel, temple, workshop

Wessex - English, 12431, fish, 19.78, workshop, temple, 1.5% rebel

Gloucestershire - English, 17210, fish, 21.69, workshop


Oxfordshire - English, 12371, grain, 24.08 ducats, university, temple, workshop

East Anglia - English, 20347, cloth, 32.03 ducats, workshop, university, marketplace, temple,

Lincoln - English, 9366, grain, 13.41 ducats, workshop

Lancashire - English, 5394, cloth, 17.52 ducats, temple

Yorkshire - English, 19232, iron, 18.14, 3% rebel, market[place, temple

Cumbria, English, National Focus, 2299, fish, 9.52 ducats, temple

Ayrshire - Scottish, 2554, Iron, 9.59


Former Colonies - All are Irish and Catholic unless otherwise notice


The Canarias - 1728 Irish Reformed, sugar, 5.98 ducats

Vestbygen - 1898, fur, 9.58 ducats

Eiriksfjord - 1691, fish, 5.3 ducats

Beothuk - 1736, fur, 6.12 ducats

Innu - 1662, fish, 5.45

Labrador - 1508, Naval Supplies, 3.72

Unamakik - 1221, fur, 7.38

Epekwitk - 1527, fur, 7.38


Colonies - Acadia, Abnaki, Stadacona. Colonists bound for Micmac.


We have just 2.5 badboy, 66 prestige, and 405 ducats in the treasury

4% inflation

8th highest income in the world, behind France, Castille, Austria, Sweden, Ming, etc.

Tied for most advanced Land with 13 countries, Down two on Naval, Down a bunch on trade, Down a bunch of Production, ahead by two in Government in front of everyone. France has 12, Auvergne and Austria at 1, four at 10, and then everyone else is still at 9, while we are at 14.

Our 35k army is 10th largest in the world. Austria and France are 1 and 2.

Our 35 ships are the 5th largest navy in the world behind Ming, Japan, Castille and Sweden.

[Abe Sargent]

Conflict Unlooked For



Oct 16 - RM with Auvergne

Oct 24 - Colony established in Micmac

Nov 5 - Stadacona expands. Since I expect to get another 5 colonists soon from my mission, I send them to Stadacona, Micmac, Abnaki and Massachusetts

Jan 1, 1500 - Govnment Increase. I can now build Courthouses

I choose to Introduce Heir

Colonist to Acadia

Feb 4 - We discover the wasteland of Komi, at the north of Finland. Gain of 5 colonists.

My next mission is stupid. It tells me to colonize Komi, but it cannot be colonized, it’s a wasteland.

Broken. I take the 5 prestige hit to cancel it. My new mission is convert The Canarias. I send a Missionary, but I have a low chance of success

Feb 19 - Fur in Stadacona

Mar 28 - Micmac expands and I send another colonist

Apr 3 - Stadacona expandacona, as does Abnaki

Apr 10 - Colony established in Massachusetts and I send more colonists

May 26 - Acadia expands

You lose Badboy for cardinals you control, and it has been dropping rapidly as a result. I should wage war soon.

July 3 -Road network in Cumbria

Aug 1 - Naval Supplies in Acadia

Aug 8 - Micmac expands

Aug 22 - Austria DOWs France. I agree to join my allies. These are the two biggest land armies, and I look to see if there is somewhere I can nip in and siege successful a province or three of Austria

Sept 8 - I discovered Mali.

Sept 15 - NLD - Sierra Leone, Massachusetts expands and I send more colonists

Sept 29 - I receive permission to use Aragon as bases for my military. Thanks. I’ll use him after moving my Cornwall army and main fleet into the Mediterranean.

Nov 3 - Fur in Micmac

Dec 9 - NLD Grain Coast

Jan 10, 1501 - Rebels in Ayrshire

Jan 21 - Rebels killed

Jan 29 - Siege begun in Apulia in Italy by me.

Feb 19 - Massachusetts expands and more colonists are dispatched.

Apr 1 - Trade tech increase

Apr 3 - We crushed a 20 ship fleet of Austria’

June 21 - About 2000 Austrian troops led by their king drive me out of Apulia and back to our boat

June 30 - Fur in Massachusetts

July 26 - Win a naval battle, and Massachusetts expanded and more colonists are sent

Aug 7 - Post Office in Ayrshire

Nov 7, The Counter-Reformation has occurred with the Council of Salamanca

Northumberland, Bohemia, Papal States, Pisa and Portugal embrace Counter-Reform Catholic

The Knights do a few days later

Nov 28 - I get an event - Heir Falls Ill. I choose p ay 20 ducats and send for a Medicus. He has passed and I have no heir.

Dec 29 - Massachusetts expands

Mar 5, 1502, Austria rejects a white peace

Apr 8 - I reject a crazy peace offer from Austria

May 1 - Land tech increase. We can build cannon now

I will build a Large Bronze Cannon for each of my three armies in Ireland/Britain

May 29 - Austria lands a few hundred troops in The Canarias and begins a siege

June 2 - I destroy the fleet with my explorer fleet I had resting there and force them away, stranding the 600 cavalry

June 16 - Expansion and more colonists to Massachusetts

June 23 - Fur in Abnaki

Aug 1 - Extended Road network in Ayrshire

Aug 2 - Austria accepts a peace offer where I admit I lost and lose 5 prestige, dropping me to 70

[Abe Sargent]

On Vassals




Do you know what the chance is to annex England? Unlikely. Not Maybe, and not Very unlikely, but just unlikely. That’s a shot worth taking to my eyes. It’s probably just 20% or something.


The factors are there - low badboy, high prestige, solid diplomacy skill, their ruler is Excommunicated,


Offer rejected Gift will be sent in the future to make up

Sept 11 - I go to war with France against Corsica.

Holland too.

I send an army in.

Nov 5 - I begin a siege of Holland province

Nov 20 - Massachusetts expands and more are sent

Jan 3, 1503 - I land a second army in Friesland

Jan 12 - I win and begin a siege there too

Jan 18 - Holland falls

Jan 25 - I destroy some ships in the Coast of Holland

Jan 27 - I decline a peace offer of 150 ducats from Holland

Feb 24 - Friesland falls

Holland is forced by the sword into being my vassal

I lose another advisor but I find a third three stat Navigator in the advisor pool and hire him.

Where can I colonize now?

I send colonists to Bermuda and Unami

Apr 6 - Corsica accepts our White peace offer

Apr 11 - Holland is now my ally

England rejects annexation

Apr 25 - Massachusetts

May 30 - Today our King had a boy, Muchadh. June 3 - RM with Holland

June 10 - Oldenburg agrees to be my ally

France is having some real problems with religion rebels

Aug 22 - I pay to put some Norweigan rebels in Orkney - 4000. I was caught and failed once.

Aug 25 - East Anglia Univ Class of 1503 - To the Adminstration

I enact Land Reform in Lancashire

Sept 9 - My colonies have taken in Bermuda and Unami

Oct 2 - Native uprising in Abnaki

Dec 10 - Rejection by England of annexation

Dec 17 - The Pope did something I would have done a long time ago and excommunicated Austria, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Feb 1, 1504 - Production tech Increase

Mar 3 - England rejects annexation

Forget England, I just decide to annex Northumberland


Northumberland - 31289 English Catholics, 16.85 ducats made, 7 Revolt Risk, cloth, south of Lothian, east of Cumbria, north of Yorkshire, with a temple.

[Abe Sargent]

The French-Irish Alliance Continues to Expand



Apr 11 - NLD - Gabon

Apr 27 - NLD Cameroon, Whydah. I also found Portugal down here in Africa

May 1- Acadia damaged by natives

May 4 - NLD - Ivory Coast

July 1 - Post Office in Northumberland

July 12 - The Canarias converts and I gain some prestige (it’s now 88)

Next Mission - Colonize Kespek, which is between Stadacona, Micmac and Abnaki - all my colonies. I send out colonists


Aug 7 - Problem. Oldenburg DOW’ed France. I join France and go to war with my former ally and the country I was trying to bring into mny fold. I order an army into my fleet

Aug 28 = NLD - Manhattan

Sept 5 - Massachusetts is now a full colony of mine.


Massachusetts - 3543, Catholic Irish, fur trade, 9.94 ducats, working on fort


Sept 15 - 9000 strong Irish land in Oldenburg and begin a siege

Oct 16 - NLD - Moron

Nov 10 Scotland funded rebeks in Ayrshire for me to fight,m and Northumberland just has rebels normally.

Nov 19 - We won in Ayrshire and Northumberland

Nov 24 - NLD Bahamas

Dec 5 - We have a colony in Kespek and get some settlers as our mission bonus.

Next mission - Break the Pirate Blockade at Connaught

Dec 20 -Oldenburg falls

Dec 30 - I destroyed the Oldenburg fleet

Jan 1, 1505 - I decline a white peace offer

Feb 7 - We broke the blockade and the new mission is Colonize Taqamkuk, which is next to Beothuk, but pretty poor.

I send colonists to Manhattan

Feb 6 - I get an event - Rush of Colonists.

I send colonists to several colonies to bump our numbers.

Apr 10 - We capture Osnabruck

Apr 23 - France has the End of Religious Turmoil

June 10 - I decline a peace offer that gives me Osnabruck

Nevers has declared free from Burgundy.

June 25 - Extended Road Network in Northumberland

July 2 - I join France against Brabant

July 7 - Munster falls to us

Oldenburg accepts being my vassal and I gain 3 badboy and a ton of prestige

[Abe Sargent]

A Continental Commitment




Now I turn my eye towards Brabant, which has a province I want, Antwerp, a COT

July 16 - Stadacona expands

July 24 - Colony established in Manhattan and I send in more colonists

Aug 1 - NLD -Mahican

Aug 26 - My army lands in Antwerpen and begins a siege

Oct 3 - I land a second army in Zeeland

Nov 27 - I get an event - The O’Neills.

The O’Neills in Oldenburg are having problems. I send them money, increase our relations, and gain prestige - the other option was to hit the relations.

Nov 28 -0 Oldenburg is our ally again

Jan 1, 1506 - Acadia hit by natives again

Jan 7 - Manhattan expands and more colonists are sent

Jan 14 - Antwerp fell

Feb 2 - I decline white peace offer

Feb 14 - I failed an assault on Vlaanderen

Feb 22 - Zeeland falls

Mar 7 - Victory over the Brabant navy

Mar 9 - Vlaanderen falls

Despite a big warscore, Brabant would not release a vassal or cede any provine to me. I continue

Mar 25 - Failed assault on the Brabant captial of Breda, but we left behind only 71 defenders

Apr 2 - Breda falls after a new assault


Apr 12 - Brabant sends a peace offer for Antwerp, Vlaanderen and Zeeland. 16 prestige and 9 badboy

Before I accept, I have max prestige, so I use 10 to expand my influence over The Palatinate

Apr 15 - NLD - Damaraland, Kisarna, Luanda


I should have done this a while ago. Grabbing land in the lowlands when it was ready and open was something I should have been doing all along. Ah well, lesson learned.


Vlaanderen - 177193 Flemish Catholics, 36.55 ducats, cloth, marketpplace, Textile manufactory!!, workshop, courthouse, west of Antwerpen and next to Brabant in Brabant province, and France in Hainaut, Calais, and Artois 12% revolt risk

Zeeland - 25480 Dutch Protestant, salt trade, temple, 21.54 ducats, 9% revolt risk. East of Zeeland, south of Holland, west of Brabant in Breda and Brabant

Antwerpen - 275526 Flemish Protestant, cloth, 35.75 ducats, 10.5% revolt, Textile Manufactory!, marketplace, courthouse, Center of Trade, between Vlaanderen and Zeeland, next to Brabant as well


I send a missionary to Zeeland, it’s pretty cheap. I’ll have to save up to send one to Antwerp. Having two manufactories this early is great.

I will be leaving one of the armies here and taking the other back, and then assembling a new army for back

With our provinces going to it instead of our vassal Holland, Antwerp is now the most valuable COT in the world, more than 200 above Astrakhan.

Holland dropped to just 80, it lost all of its value when we moved.

[Abe Sargent]

Cooling the Populace




I muscled ourselves into a strong place in the COT

June 3 - NLD - Pocumtuk

June 24 - Manhattan expands and more colonists are dispatched


I make a National Decision - Colonial Expansion - I lose 3 to my badboy limit, but I gain cheaper costs to send out colonists and better colony growth

July 9 - Rebels in Antwerp

We currently control 4 cardinals. That really will help to drop our Badboy

July 27 - Rebels defeated

Something is going to happen in four years to blow the ocks off my colonial range, and then I will probably drop these three navigators in order to get advisors again.

Sept 29 - Cotton in Manhattan

Nov 6 - We are now the Papal Controller again

We have 5 Cardinals from Munster, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, and Meath. England has two- one from London and one from Lothian.

Get this, the Excommunicate Bomb reloads in one month

Dec 8 - Manhattan expands

I send colonists to Stadacona, which I want to finish off

Feb 16 - 1507, France asks for my help in staving off the Papal States, but sorry France. I love ya, and I hope we can become allies again in the future, but youa re beging attacked way too much right now.

Apr 12 - NLD St Helena

Apr 13 - Aragon rejects our Rm offer.

I excommunicate Portugal

May 6 - Stadacona expands and I send one last group of colonists to it

June 1 - Land Reform in Yorkshire

July 20 - Fish in Unami

I discover that Portugal has been colonizing several prpovinces along the coast just south of us, so I again incite natives. I am caught once.

Aug 20 - Slider time

I go with maxed Aristocracy and I get 5 revolutionary rebel units in Lincoln

Sept 26 - We defeated the Rebels

Oct 2 - Stadacona expand sand is now a full province. I order a fort build.


Stadacona: 1535 fur trading Irish Catholics make us 10.53 ducats annually. Next to Kespek and Atikamekw


Dec 20 - Those rebels I set up in Orkney a long time ago have resulted in them declaring independence against Sweden, under the flag of Norway

We are now “Norway”’s ally. They are at war with Sweden, so perhaps Sweden will take them down, we’ll see.

[Abe Sargent]

Destruction of a Power


Dec 23 - I discover Seminole, and the natives have been killed off and settled by Portugal, it’s a small colony but one I would be unable to take out.

Dec 27 - Austria takes a few French provinces like Savoie and Lyonnais in war.

Jan 24, 1508 - RM with Norway

Mar 1 - Land tech increases and we can upgrade infantry

I upgrade my cannon to Culverin. I upgrade my Galloglaigh Infantry to Reformed Galloglaigh Infantry

I generally choose units that are better on offense than defense

Mar 28 - Land Reform in Northumberland

Apr 2 - The two provinces of Scotland agree to become my vassal

Apr 17 - Gloucestershire becomes reformed

Apr 19 - France loses three provinces to Brabant in peace

I have the $$ to send a Missionary to Gloucestershire so I do

Apr 27 - Naval Supplies in Bermuda

I send some colonists to Micmac to start to finish a colony or two before July 30, 1510

May 1 - France has changed religion to Protestant

Aug 29 - NLD - Barahonas and Tortuga, controlled by Portugal

Aug 31 - I embrace the Counter-Reformation, which will help us get missionaries, their chances, and cost.

Sept 1 - Four province Brittany has declared independence from France

We enter into a Rm with them

Sept 18 - Micmac expands and I send in more colonists

Sept 29 - NLD Curacao

Oct 11 - France is dying. They have -3 stability, huge war exhaustion, and religion problems.

Oct 27 - NLD St. Thomas, owned by Portugal

I figure I might explore down in the Caribbean, and nip just one or two islandsm like any self-respecting colonial power would do.

Nov 27 - I do the Incite natives trick to wipe out the Portugese colony they just founded in Timucua, right above Seminole

I’m making 68 ducats annually from Antwerp’s COT, which is really nice

Jan 1, 1509 - Workshops in Lancashire and Yorkshire; Land Reform in Ayrshire

Jan 15 - Naval Supplies in Kespek

Feb 8 - Micmac expands and more colonists are sent

Mar 7 - NLD Havana

Mar 27 - NLD Belize and the Maya

Apr 2 - I decline an alliance offer from Castille

Apr 28 - NLD Guantanamo

May 26 - Where are there still Catholics? Portugal, Castille, England, Austria and Italy. We are havens in a sea of Orthodox, Reformed, and Protestant

June 1 - Native attack in Abnaki

June 24 - Gloucestershire converts back!

June 30 - Micmac expands. I send in one last batch

July 2 - One of my navigators has died, but in a year that will be okay

I create a 4 star Naval advisor and hire him

[Abe Sargent]

Entering the Irish Colonial Age



Sept 1 - Oxfordshire and East Anglia are now cores

Sept 19 - NLD Barbados - Portugese

Oct 4 - NLD - Demerara, Essequibo

Oct 28 - NLD St. Lucia - Portugese

Oct 31 NLD Puerto Rico, Dominica

Nov 1 - NLD Kwedech

Nov 20 - Micmac expands and becomes a full colony


Micmac - 2537 Irish Catholics fur traders, 8.86 ducats made, adjacent to Acadia, Abnaki and Kespek. Level 1 fort ordered



Dec 9 - Who now has 6 Cardinals? Ireland does!

Jan 1, 1510 - Government tech increases, and we can build Universities

Feb 10 - NLD - Tortuga - Portugese

Feb 26 - NLD Martinique, Antigua

Apr 1 - The first of my events in 1510 has occurred. Naval Tech increase. Which of course increases our colonial range.

I send colonists to Taqamkuk which will get me more colonists if/when successful per my mission

Apr 3 - NLD Suriname

Apr 8 - NLD Cumana

May 1 - Production Tech increases

June 23 - We get an event - Poor Uniforms, we discover we have poor uniforms and my army loses a bit of morale for a year until we get them replaced

July 21 - NLD Trinidad

July 25 - NLD St Kitts.

Aug 1, Land Tech Increases and…..Vestbygen is now a core, my first colonial core. What does that mean? Instead of drawing naval ranges from Ireland, I can now drow from greenland. What can I hit now?

I send colonists to Santee, the province by the Cherokee, that I took Portugal out of.

I also send to Pamlico, next to Santee

Finally, I send colonists to Bahamas

[GoldenEagle]

Can we get an updated map?

[Autumn]

Yes, please.

[Abe Sargent]

I didn;t have internet for a day, so I played ahead but I haven;t got caught up yet in the dynasty. I can give you maps from 11 years previously, 1499. Or I can get you 1536, which is how far i played. I don;t think either will help. Tell you what, why don't I put in parentheses where a province is if it doesn;t use a modern day placename for colonization purposes?


I have colonists to Santee (Coastal South Carolina), Pamlico (Coastal North Carolina), Bahamas, Bermuda.

Unami is New Jersey. Manhattan, Massachiusetts, Delaware ,Mobile, Connecticut are exactly what you think they are. Abnaki is Maine. Taqamkuk and Beothuk together make up the island of Newfoundland. Acadia and Micmac are north of Maine up to and through the coast. Micmac is New Brunswick, and Acadia Nova Scotia. Epekwitk is better known as Prince Edward Island, and Unamakik beside it is direct east of Prince Edward Isle and known today as Cape Breton Island north of and part of Nova Scotia.


Stadacona is where the St. Lawrence River meets the gulf, and it is, tax base wise, the most valuable of these provinces in the area.

Kespek is between Stadacona and Micmac and Abnaki on the other, so it is adjacent to Maine. It is on the southern part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Seminole, where the Portugese are, is the southern half of Florida.


That should be most of where we are in order to help. As I send out more colonists and talk about new world provinces, I'll tell you where it is until I can get you caught up.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Begins


Aug 9 - NLD Les Cayes - Portugese

Aug 14 - NLD Turks Islands - I send in colonists

Aug 21 - Colony established in Taqamkuk.

New Mission: Turn Unami into a city

Sept 2 - Land Reform in Cumbria

Oct 1 - NLD Hochelega

Jan 20, 1511 - Pamlico our newest colony (76 chance of success)

Feb 1 - Bahamas founded (84 %)

Feb 3 - Santee founded (79)

Feb 17 - Turks Islands (89) founded

I send more colonists to Pamlico and Santee

May 23 - We lose the Papacy

July 25 - NLD Grao Para, Tucujulandia

Aug 1 - Production tech Increase

Aug 5 - NLD Ceara - Castille

Aug 8 - Pamlico Expandico

I send more colonists

Aug 12 - I commission a Painting and lose a magistrate

Aug 23 - Santee Expandee

Dec 19 - I get the O’Neills event again and send France money to help them out

Jan 30, 1512 - Pamlico expands

I send colonists to Manhattan

Mar 13 - Auvergne was captured by these French rebels so I am besieging it with my Lowlands Army

Mar 24 - I assaulted it and it fell back into my vassal’s hands. You’re welcome vassal

May 1 - Production Tech increases and I can now build Textile Manufactory

I send a Missionary to Antwerp

July 17 - Manhattan expands and more colonists.

I make a four star navigator

I Endorse Local Culture and gain 10 cultural tradition, lose 5 prestige and a magistrate

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Aug 26 - Cotton in Pamlico

Aug 30 - I send war subsidies to Norway, because they are still at war with Sweden

Oct 1 - France goes bankrupt

Dec 3 - Manhattan Expansion

Feb 1, 1513 - Dauphine declares independence from France

Mar 1, 1513 - Lorraine declared free from the Papal States

Mar 9 - Rebels in Vlaanderen

Apr 6 - Rebels crushed

Apr 17 - I am the new Papal Controller, I control 5 cardinals

I have Cardinals from Munster, Yorkshire, Osfordshire, Lancashire and The Canarias

May 1 - Acadia attacked by natives

June 1 - The Canarias is now a core, and Normundy declared independence from France. England DOW’s it.

With The Canarias now a core, I can colonize as deep as Cuba from them, and as south as Bahamas and Turks from Vestbygen, although I still have a three star and four star navigator, giving me +20 and +15 percent to my colonial range.

Like I said, I just want to poach a couple of islands in the Carribbean, like you would expect any colonial power to do. I am currently working on Bahamas and Turks, and that’s fair. I was thinking of grabbing a couple of islands in the Lesser Antilles, and many are still available -

I send colonists to Martinique, with a large native population 6 taxbase, and low aggressiveness and virtually no ferocity, and a 87% chance of taking.

June 16 - Manhattan expands to 998

July 1 - Growth in Manhattan makes it a full city. I order a fort built here.


Manhattan - 3501 Irish Catholic cotton growers, 7.85 ducats annually, next to Unami, Connecticut and Mahican to its interior.



Aug 2 - My explorer died

Oct 2 - I send colonists to Bahamas

Oct 10 - I get Benign Neglect for Cornwall and choose just to take the 100 ducats.

I use my money to build two workshops in Northumberland and Meath

Dec 6 - Colony established on Martinique

Jan 26, 1514 - Antwerp converts!

Feb 1 - France goes bankrupt

Antwerp now makes me 56 ducats annually, plus I make 72 annually from the COT

Feb 2 - Fish in Taqamkuk

[Abe Sargent]

A Short Colonial Interlude



Mar 27- We lost the Papacy

Apr 4 - Expansion in Bahamas

Colonists to Pamlico

May 9 - Sugar in Bahamas

I extend road network in Gwynedd and Marches

12000 Pretender rebels have captured London, England

I decide to help

June 7 - 10,000 Irish meet 12,000 English pretender Rebels

June 25 - Although we were winning morale wise, we had lost about 7500 men and I call a retreat They had just too many cavalry - 6000.

Sept 1 - Papal Controller again

Sept 24 - Pamlico expands and more settlers are dispatched

Dec 1 - Benign Neglect for Stadacona and I take the 100 ducats again

Jan 18 - 1515 - Rebels sent away

Mar 1 - France bankrupt again

Mar 16 - Pamlico expands and more pioneers are bound for her shores

Do you know how much it costs me to send it colonists? 17.5 ducats. That’s it.

July 23 - Tobacco in the Turks.

Sept 4 - Pamlico expands and more are dispatches

Nov 1 - Production Tech Increases

Extended Road Network in Vlaanderen

Dec 1 - Acadia attacked by natives

[Abe Sargent]

Ireland in the Lowlands




Dec 6 - I can move my National Focus for the next 25 years. I was considering dropping it on Antwerp. It would help with the Zeeland Missionary, rebels in all three states, and so forth. However, do they need it?

I could also send it to colonies. For example, I could send it to Massachusetts and then colonize Penacook (New Hampshire), Pocumtuk (Vermont), Narraganset (Rhode Island), Connecticut and Mahican and they would all get +50% colonial growth. That would be very powerful. Up until now, I have used this as a tool to control revolts from new provinces. Local provinces can get special decisions like Post Offices. However, sending this to Massachusetts would really help the colonial effort. On the other hand, my badboy has dropped to 4.2, and I feel that another gobble of land could really help, so I could save the Focus and use it for my next possessions. Are there areas I should look at for future expansion?

Since I have grabbed three lowlands provinces, I’ve pretty much accepted that Lowalnds expansion is acceptable. Where could I go hither?

Calais, is poor, and it’s right next to me. An English province owned by England with an English core only nets 11.23 ducats. Hainaut gets 12.32, Brabant itself is nice at 31.75, Breda, the capital of Brabant has 26.8, Utrecht gets 23.3 and those are all Brabant provinces. Holland and Friesland, controlled by my vassal Holland, get some dough.

I may not be France’s ally at the moment, but I still like them a lot. I don’t want to start grabbing French provinces like Artois or Picardie. I could attack three province Normandie or four province Brittany.. Who do I have a Cb against?

Reconquest on Auvergne, my vassal
Alliance on Sweden
Colonialism on Portugal and Castille
Holy War on Cherokee and Ottomans
Excommunicated on England, Pisa, Austria and Portugal
Trade Dispute on Sweden, Austria, and Castille
Colonial Conquest on Maya and Cherokee


Nothing there I can use. I could hope that, in a few years, I get the ability to Excommunciate whiel I am Pope, and take out someone, but that bomb cannot be used against non-Catholics, like Brabant and and Normandie. Wait, what am I doing?


I can send a spy to Fabricate Claims on Brabant. Cost is 108 ducats, 77% chance fo success, just a 36% chance of discovery, temporary CB on Brabant

Success, and not discovered.

Jan 27, 1516 0 I land a second army in Vlaanderen.

Feb 17 - I can Excommunicate. I hold onto it and DOW Brabant.

All of my allies are in. Bohemia, the HRE, also declares their support for Brabant, but Sweden, the Defender of Reformed Faith, does not.

I order my troops in.

Feb 19 - I get an event. Minorities Flock to Kespek. It gains 400 people, becomes protestant, and gains Religious Migration for 25 years. It is now self sustaining.


Kespek - 1559 Irish Protestants, 3.62 ducats, naval supplies, next to Stadacona, Micmac and Abnaki, plus Kwedech. Religious Migration means it gets +10% population growth for 25 years, but -10% missionary chance during that time.


Feb 23 - Pamlico expands and more are sent

Mar 16 - We win a battle in Breda against the main Brabant force

Apr 22 - Failed assault in Hainaut

May 15 - Hainaut falls after a second assault

May 30 - I decline a white peace offer

June 7- Brabant falls to a quick assault

June 25 - Failed assault on Limburg

July 9 - Limburg falls. Oldenburg have grabbed Gelre.

July 23 - Brabant offers me peace for Brabant, Limburg, Gelre and Hainaut. Now, Brabant I do want. Sure. No, not right now, I push on.

Aug 16 - Pamlico expands. It is now a full city. Colonists sent to Bahamas

Sept 5 - Breda falls. I order my forces to Utrecht,t he final Brabant province not in my hands

Sept 17 - Brabant offers me the same four provinces, over 300 ducats, and renege their claims on Zeeland. I do not immediately reject.

Sept 22 - Utrecht falls before both my armies and troops from Auvergne.

I send a peace envoy.

I take their money, the loss of a core, and three provonces - Hainaut, Brabant, and Limburg.


I move my National Focus to Brabant province.

Nov 29 - White Peace with Bohemia


Our new provinces:

Limburg - 44876 Flemish Reformed. Iron mines, 16.74 ducats. Temple, marketplace, courthouse and workshop. Next to Brabant, Breda, Munster, Berg, Koln, and Liege7% revolt

Hainaut - 63296 Wallonian Protestant, cloth, 17.25 ducats, 10.5 revolt. Temple, next to Brabant, Vlaanderen, Liege, Valenciennes, Cambray and Artois

Brabant - National focus, 115278 Flemish, cloth, Protestant, 9.3% revolt, 30.69 ducats, university, marketplace, temple.


I build Post Offices in Antwerp and Vlaanderen

We now have 15.6 badboy and time for more cooling.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Now, I have the Excommunicate Bomb, but there are few cardinals left right now, and I am about to lose it. Do I use it now? Who is even Catholic?

I excommunicate Corsica

With my blood money, I order a fort in Pamlico, Kespek, and missionaries to my three conquered provinces.

Dec 7 - Bermuda becomes reformed


Pamlico - 2417, cotton growers, Irish Catholic, 5.52 ducats. Next to Santee, Powhatan and an unknown inland province or two.


Feb 12, 1517 - Rebellion in Hainaut

Feb 16 - Bahamas expands

Mar 1 - I send colonists to Bermuda

Mar 5 - Rebels crushed in Hainaut

May 1 - NLD Tuscarora - the inland province on Pamlico

June 4 - Post Office in Zeeland

Aug 10 - Bermuda expands, and rebecomes Catholic

Sept 1 - Naval Tech Increase. Let me see my range now

With that, I choose to create a tech advisor and drop one of my navigators.

I create a level 5 statesman and hire him

I lost practically nothing with the navigator since my tech increased

Oct 7 - In order to finish off Unami, I send in colonists.

Dec 8 - Rebels in Vlaanderen

Dec 26 - Austria is now Defender of the Faith

Dec 28 - the Papal States arenow Papal Controller

Jan 7, 1518 - Rebels defeated

Jan 13 - the Papacy revoked my Excommunication of Corsica

England has a new King, Henry V, and Queen Mary is dead, so they are no longer Excommunicated.

Mar 2 - Norway’s king died, and we form a personal union with “Norway” and their one province in Orkney

So my rebels long ago have borne fruit


Mar 22 - Unami is now a full city, mission accomplished, and I order a fort here..

New Mission - Colonize Powhatan


Unami - 2523 fishing Irish Catholics, making 10.79 ducats. Next to Manhattan, Delaware, and some inland unknown provinces.


I send colonists to Powhatan. 78% of taking, next to Pamlico, and I get colonists if it works, taxbase 6, I’m in. (Powhatan is coastal Virginia)

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues




Apr 10 - Brittany is the new HRE

May 10 - Our monarch died today, after gathering many colonies and provionces to us. His son is not old enough yet to take over, so we are in a regency for a bit.

May 31 - Okay, our new king takes over. Heh. That was the shortest Regency EVER!

Muchadh O’Neill, Admin 8, Mil 3, Dip 6

June 19 - Royal Marriages with…France, England, Auvergne, Holland and Oldenburg

June 22 - I arrange for two festivals, and my two magistrates are used, I gain 10 cultural tradition, and some prestige

Aug 4 - Rm with Scotland

Sept 4 - Finally, Norway at peace with Sweden.

Sept 13 - We fail in Powhatan and I send in more colonists

Oct 1 - Beothuk is now a core province.

I think I can fire my other navigator.

What do I have that I want?

I have a Naval and Government advisor.

I use my magistrate to Endorse Culture which drops my presige 5 but gains me 10 cultural tradition, and takes me back to 100 cultural. What do I want?

Land, production, trade, or something els.e Hmm. Let’s try a different tactic than normal.

I use 5 naval and 15 cultural tradition to make a five star Lord Proprietor, which gives me 10% colonial growth across the board.

The loss of the Navigator doesn’t hurt anything at all.

Nov 4 - Sugar in Martinique

Dec 1 - Bermuda is now self sustaining.


Bermuda - Level 1 fort on the way, 1001 Irish Catholics, naval supplies, 3.92 ducats.


Jan 8, 1519 - Revolt in Zeeland

Jan 27 - I kill many of them and the rest move across the border to Brabant in Breda

Feb 1 - Naval Tech increase

France Bankrupt yet again

Mar 2 - RM with Brittany

Mar 10 - Powhatan (Coastal Virginia) is now a colony. Mission complete. New Mission? Discover Santana. I make an explorer. In my two ship fleet in Turks Island and send them out.

Colonists dispatched to Santee

Apr 1 - Native attack in Acadia

Apr 15 - NLD Cayenne

May 3 - Rebels in Hainaut

[Abe Sargent]

The Height of the Irish Colonial Age


May 16 - Papal Controller again!

May 22 - NLD - Ilheus, Castille

May 24 - Rebels quelled

June 8 - NLD Santo Amaro

July 1 - Colonists to Powhatan

July 10 - NLD Santana. 5 new colonists. I send one to Bahamas

Next Mission - Discover Chorotega.

Since I expect to meet this very soon, I spray some colonists to Dominica, and Conoy.

Post Office in Hainaut

July 22 - NLD Rio de Janeiro

July 30 - NLD Pernambuco - Portugese, and Porto Seguro - Castille

Aug 1 - France bankrupt

Aug 9 - NLD Maranhao 0 Castille

Sept 13 - Santee expands. I send in more

I send colonists to Acadia too to use my last batch

Sept 27 - NLD - Caracas

Oct 18 - NLD Honduras - Maya

Nov 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Nov 3 - NLD Magdalena

Nov 21 - NLD - Cartagena

Dec 15 - NLD -Mosquito

Dec 24 - Powhatan expands

Dec 29 - Colony established in Conoy (Maryland)

Jan 1, 1520 - I send colonist to Conoy (Maryland)

Jan 3 - We lost the Papacy

Jan 4 - NLD - Chorotega

5 colonists - Next mission -Colonize Dominica. HAHAHA.
I send colonists to Powhatan

Jan 8 - NLD Jamaica, new colony in Dominicia, and more colonists to replace the ones juts sent.

Mission completed. The next one is: Discover Atakapa

Jan 10 - NLD Antioquia, Bahamas expands and I send in more colonists.

With another discover mission, I can keep this engine going, so let’s see where it is and get there!

Feb 6 - Acadia expandia

Feb 14 - Castille inherited Wallachia

Mar 14 - Slider, I move one naval and lose some investment in land tech

Mar 18 - Santee expands and I send in more colonists

Colonists to Delaware, Acadia, Martinique

Apr 1 - Gwynedd is now a core

Apr 12 - Hainaut has converted back to Catholic!

May 22 - Workshop in Hainaut and Post Office in Brabant

June 20 - Conoy expands

June 30 - Powhatan expands

I send more colonists to Conoy

July 7 - NLD - Atakapa. We get 5 new colonists.

Next mission? Can we keep the machine going? Colonize Mobile. But that will take forever, it’s like 50 outside of our colonial range. So….

I spend 5 prestige and drop to 92 in order to cancel it. Next mission? Naval Race Sweden. Sweden doesn’t have that many more ships, so I put in some orders.

July 13 - Bahamas expands and I send in some more

July 16 - Muscowy just took 10 provinces from Golden Horde, ouch.

Aug 9 - Acadia Expands

Aug 19 - Muscowy is now Russia, and they changed their government to Empire

Sept 1 - Colony established in Delaware and I send in more

Sept 20 - Martinique and Santee both expand. I send more to Santee

Oct 12 - Post Office in Limburg

I send colonists to Tuscarora, a province without any natives (Portugal killed them all) inland of Santee, Pamlico and Powhatan (It's Central North Carolina)

Dec 14 -I spend 10 prestige to put Brabant in my Sphere of Influence

Im starting to run out of cash with all of these colonizations. I was saving some cash for a manufactory, but the Colonial Storm of 1518-2? Got me.

Dec 18 - Conoy expands

Dec 31 - Naval Supplies in Powhatan

Jan 13, 1522 - Bahamas expands and is a full province.


Bahamas - I order a fort here. 6027 Irish Catholics, sugar, 3.69 ducats,


Feb 16 - Delaware expands


March 28 - Santee expands and is now a full province:


Santee - 2007 Irish Catholics work this province making 6.47 ducats and it is next to Pamlico and Tuscarora, plus the Cherokee provinces of Catawba and Muskogee. I do not know what the trade good here is yet. I’ve never seen that before.

[Abe Sargent]

The Height of the Irish Colonial Age



Apr 1 - France bankrupt

If I wanted to release land and create a vassal, here is who I could create (you can only create traditionally independent minded areas)

Flanders, Hainaut, Cornwall, Wales, Northumberland, Tyrone, Leinster, Munster, Connacht

Apr 7 - Tobacco in Conoy

Apr 12 - Tuscarora founded

June 1 - We have more ships than Sweden, and our next mission is to colonize Cameroon

June 22 - Road Network in Antwerp

July 2 - I get another Minorities to Taqamkuk, and the 400 additional people puts in into regular city status.


Taqamkuk - 1660 Irish Protestants, fish, 4.39 ducats, I order a fort, Religious Migration for 24 years, and adjacent to Beothuk



As you can see, I’ve been finishing some colonies as I add more.


July 5 - I saw Portugal finally took a Cuban province, and I incited natives to take them off, and success but I was found.


I decide to send colonists to Cameroon, and if they succeed, they are replaced, so no major loss, and then I will not support it, so if it gets killed it gets killed.

Sept 1 - I gain a Dishonorable Scum CB against Russia

Sept 26 - I get Colonial Company founded with 200 colonists in Ungava (Coastal province in the Ungava Peninsula in Quebec)

Oct 16 - Glamorgan is now Reformed. I can’t send a missionary yet. Next year probably

Nov 1, 1521 - Truce with Brabant expires

I can’t believe we got a crappy province like Ungava.

Jan 11, 1522 - Extended Road Network in Zeeland

Jan 15 - Missionary to Glamorgan

Jan 26 - Success in Cameroon. Next mission - Convert Zeeland. I’ma working on it.

Mar 1 - NLD - Lenape, inland of Delaware, Unami

May 1 - Limburg converts. Great news, but I would have preferred Zeeland for the mission/

May 30 - Shit! Zeeland converted right like that. How you like me NOW?

Next mission, colonize Pennacook, and I send in some (New Hampshire)

May 31 - Tobacco in Santee

July 1 - Production tech increase

Aug 1 - Extended Road in Brabant

Nov 6 - Colony established in Pennacook. We get a replacement colonist. I send them to Conoy

New Mission? Discover Guadeloupe

I send colonists to: Delaware, Acadia, Turks Islands

Nov 18 - Tobacco in Delaware

Nov 24 - Powhatan expands

Dec 1 - Naval tech increases, I send colonists to Powhatan, and East Anglia University 0 Class of 1522 I create a Magistrate. Then I Extend Road Network in Hainaut

Dec 9 - Rebels in Brabant

Jan 4, 1523 - Rebels destroyed.

Jan 5 - NLD - St Martin

Jan 16 - NLD Guadeloupe

I send colonists to Abnaki

Next Mission? Build University in Munster

Feb 12 - Revolts in Hainaut

Apr 1 - Expansion in Acadia. I send in more colonists. I need to make this a regular colony and stop the regular attacks

Apr 8 - We win in Hainaut. Extended Road Network in Limburg

Apr 17 - Successful conversion in Brabant.. Welcome back to Catholicism

Apr 23 - Delaware expands

Apr 27 - As does Conoy

May 1 - Eiriksfjord is now a core (In Greenland)

May 12 - Fish in Ungava

May 15 - Expansion in Turks.

May 18 - Colonial Company founded, 200 colonists are put in Atikamekw. Look, fellas, I appreciate new colonies, but can you leave behind the clunkers? (The northern coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence, between Stadacona and Innu)

May 25 - Powhatan expands - I send in more

June 1 - France bankrupt.

June 14 0 Abnaki expands

July 31 - We get an event - Poor Iron. For the next year building military units will be more expensive

Aug 24 -Acadia Expands

Sept 1, Government Tech Increase. What do I want my new Idea to be?

I take Land of Opportunity, which adds 20% growth to colonies

Tuscarora, for example, is growing now at a rate of 88/year. That includes my advisor, the Idea, my decision Colonial Expansion, and being a bit narrowminded. You’ll note that I always wanted to change that slider, but I’ve waited while working on others in order to get this bonus. Plus, it helps with the Papacy stuff.

[bbgunn]

Ha... it's funny imagining Irish colonies in the Caribbean.

This dynasty is making me want EU3. I have EU2 but haven't played it in years.

[Abe Sargent]

Three More



Sept 8, I decide to take my last Caribbean possession, Cuba. I send colonists to Guantanamo, Havana and Moron. When Portugal or Castille have taken one of these, I have always immediately incited the natives against them, and now it’s my turn to colonize the entire island, and then I am done, and I will leave the others, like Jamaica, Guadeloupe, St Martin, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Curacao and Antigua for others. I also have no desire to enter South or Central America.

Oct 1 - Extend Road Network in Oxfordshire

Dec 3 - Powhatan expands

Dec 18 - Tobacco in Dominica

Feb 1, 1524 - Today is a great day. Acadia is no longer a colony!


Acadia - 2003 Irish Catholic make naval supplies like lumber, and make us 5.12 ducats in the process. Acadia is next to Micmac, Epekwitk and Unamakik


Feb 28 - Sweden annexed the Kingdom The Hansa

Mar 20 Okay, here we go.
23rd - Guantanamo - yes
31st - Havana - yes
15th - Moron - yes


Apr 1 - Wessex, Cumbria, and Lancashire are now cores

All three Cuban provinces made it in one (as a reminder, Catholics get +20% to hit with colonists, this is where I am supposed to be good)

Moron and Guantanamo have good low aggressive natives, and Havana, only in the middle, but with low ferocity.

Apr 28 - Minorities flock to Martinique. It is now a full colony:


Martinique - 3610 Sugar farmers, Irish Protestant, 7.21 ducats, Religious Migration


May 9 -Spread of Disease in Moron among the natives. I choose to assuage their pain. I lose 40 ducats, gain extra overseas income and colonist chance in Moron for a short while.

May 24 - Road Network in Lincoln, colonists to Conoy

July 1 - Abnaki has grown to be self sufficient


Abnaki - 2504, fur, Irish Catholic, 10.38 ducats, next to Micmac, Pennacook and an inland province named Kwedich, which is actually next on my colonize list.


I send colonists to Kwedich (inland Quebec, along St. Lawrence river up from Stadacona)


As you may know, I do have to pay upkeep on my colonies annually. With my current 13 colonies (Cameroon, Turks, Moron, Guantanamo, Havana, Pennacook, Atikamekw, Ungava, Delaware, Conoy, Dominica, Powhatan, and Tuscarora.) I have a monthly upkeep of 21.2 ducats at max. That’s not too bad at all. I get 76 annually from my COT in Antwerp, so that, alone, pays for my upkeep of several colonies.

Now, on the other hand, I have 11.9 inflation, because I am minting 38 ducats monthly to pay for military and navy and advisors. My navy is just 5, my military 18.3, and my advisors 1.6. So I am losing about 9 ducats a month, and I make a lot more annually in the annual taxes, so I make some money each year around January. Right now, I have 286 gold. You’ll note that I didn’t push that too much and build a bunch of forts in the new colonies this year, because I’m a bit cash sensitive right now.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by bbgunn

Ha... it's funny imagining Irish colonies in the Caribbean.

This dynasty is making me want EU3. I have EU2 but haven't played it in years.

Well, when that Ireland replaces England...

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



July 19 - Road Network in East Anglia

July 24 - Tobacco in Tuscarora

Sept 1 - Trade Tech Increase

Oct 1 -Road Network in Gloucestershire

Oct 19 - Fur in Atikamekw

Nov 10 - Conoy expands

I think it is interesting that no country has sent colonists to Cape Verde. I’m sure everyone knows where it is now, and tons of European nations have the range, why not send otherwise useless colonists to grab a native free piece of land?

Dec 13 - Kwedech is the newest colony of ours.

Dec 15 - I get an event - Carnal Sins. Our King is enticed by a hot chick. I can counsel that he bed her and have a bastard, or keep chaste. Note, we do not currently have an heir. Meet our new, weak, heir, Cathal, with 6 Adm, 9 Dip, and 3 Military, but he’s weak cause he’s a bastard.


Jan 17, 1525 - Colonists dispatched to the tobacco fields of Conoy

Feb 1 - Land tech increase. We can now get better cannons

Apr 1 - Road Network in Cornwall

Apr 2 - Brittany accepts my offer for an alliance

June 1 - Damage from natives in Pennacook so I send in more colonists to shore up their defences

July 6 - Conoy expands

Oct 14 - Road Network in Glamorgan

Nov 5 - Pennacook expands

Dec 3 - Colonists sent to Kwedech


Jan 1, 1526 - I have several colonies coming due this year, so we can tighten up our colonization a bit

Feb 1 - Turks Islands is now self sufficient


Turks Islands - I order a level 1 fort here. 7.07 ducats made in the tobacco trade by the 2004 Irish Catholics here.


March 1 Powhatan too.


Powhatan - 2003, naval supplies, Irish Catholic, next to Conoy, Tuscaraora and Pamlico, plus an unseen inner province (Coastal Virginia)



Road Network in Wessex

May 8 Kwedech expands and more colonists are sent ot the inland province

July 1 - NLD - Monacan the inland province on Powhatan.

July 25 - Glamorgan converts

Sept 1- Conoy has grown into a city


Conoy - Level 1 fort purchased, 2500 tobacco farmers of Irish descent and Catholic worship. This port is next to Delaware, Powhatan and several unknown inland provinces, or perhaps just one unknown. (Maryland)



Sept 21 - Provence declared themselves independent from a dying France

Oct 1 - We lost the Dishonorable Scrum Cb against Russia

Oct 12 - Kwedech expands

Nov 4 - Naval Supplies in Pennacook

Dec 17 - Fur in Kwedech

Dec 28 - Tobacco in Havana

Jan 2, 1527 - Tobacco in Guantanamo

Feb 1 - Land Reform in Antwerp

Feb 27 - Coffee in Moron

Castille just warned Champa, and since I know that Champa is in deep Asia, they must be really far in exploration.

May 2 - I send colonists to Lenape

June 1 - Another native attack in Pennacook so I send in more colonists to help with the numbers

Nov 1 - In case you were wondering:

We have the best prestige in the world by far, with 84, next highest is Sardinia at 33.
Our inflation is over 12%, and that’s not good.
We have the third highest income in the world after Austria and Castille with their gold mines
Land tech is no longer high.. We fell here as money became a priority for a while. We are two-4 behind the leader in everything except government, where we are still the #1 tied with Austria and Brittany


Nov 4 Lenape colonization failed despite a 93% chance of taking. I sent in more colonists.

Nov 9 - Pennacook expandacook

Nov 13 - Minorities flock to Delaware and it is now a city.


Delaware: I build fort, 2149 Protestant Irish tobacco growers, make us 6.55 ducats. Next to Unami, Conoy, Lenape, and something else.

[Tellistto]

Been waiting for you to take out England in one way or another. That needs to happen! Unify those islands, I say!

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues




Dec 9 - Bearn defected to France from Aragon, because France as a better choice?

Jan 1, 1528 - Brabant gets Land Reform

May 7 - Lenape is colonized and more pioneers are leaving now for its pristine new frontier

Aug 27, 1528 - After a while off, I am again Papal Controller

Aug 29 - Slaves in Cameroon

Sept 1 - Naval Tech increases and Toulouse is now independent

What France needs to do is destroy all of its ships and armies, set free all of its vassals as vassals, collect that income without spending anything, and then rebuild itself.

Oct 30 - Lenape expands.

Dec 1 - Land Reform in Vlaanderen

Jan 1, 1529 - NLD - Manahoac, Susquehanna, both inland of my coastal colonies

Apr 1 - Anyone I want to declare a Crusade against? Everyone is too far away

What is says when I try to Crusade Russia - “While tempting, we cannot launch a Crusade against fellow Christians, heretics or not.”

May 7 - We lost the Papacy

May 15 - Cameroon expands and I send in more colonists

Oct 23 - Tobacco in Lenape

Oct 29 - Toulouse annexed by Aragon in war

Nov 1 - Land reform in Hainaut

Nov 29 - Expansion of Cameroon and more sent

June 14, 1530 - Cameroon expandoon

Oct 1 - Land Reform in Limburg

Dec 28 - Expandoon

Feb 1, 153 - Trade tech Increase

Feb 12 - I take 100 ducats off a Benign Neglect event

Feb 22 - Military Divided. Forts, 1 stability,. +1 defensive, Attack, -1 stability too, +1 offensive. I take the defensive mode

I put a bunch of stuff into my stab.

July 1 - Ungava is a full province


Ungava - 1500 Irish Catholics from this province started by a colonial company. The fishers make me 1.76 ducats annually. No fort built here. Next to Labrador, and the coastal province of Nunavik


July 14 - Expandoon


Aug 12 - I offer England annexation. It is unlikely to happen. I’ll take those odds for those provinces,

Rejected


Oct 1 - Land Enclosure in Hainaut

Jan 28, 1532 - Cameroon is now a full province, and it gets a wall


Cameroon - 8521 Irish Catholics, 2 ducats, slaves,



Wow, not that valuable at all. Tropical -50% hits it financially.


I send colonists to Susquehanna (Eastern PA)


Feb 1 - Tuscarora expands enough to be a full colony. It too gets a wall.


Tuscarora - 1004 Tobacco Irish Catholics, 4.42 ducats, inland of Powhatan, Pamlico, Santee and next to Cherokee in Catawba, Cheraw and the unclaimed Monacan.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Tellistto

Been waiting for you to take out England in one way or another. That needs to happen! Unify those islands, I say!

Tell

Don't worry

[Abe Sargent]

Absorbing the Beast




Apr 1 - Colonists sent to Kwedech

June 1 - England rejects annexation

July 29 - Susquehanna is set up now


My colonial guy is doing well, and I get an event, and choose to get an additional +10% growth to my colonies for the next 6 years

Aug 2 - Land Reform Zeeland

I send colonists to Manahoac

Aug 20 - Papal Controller again baby!

Sept 5 - Kwedech expands

Sept 21 - England rejects annexation

Nov 1 - NLD Fernando Po

Jan 1, 1533 - Atikamekw is now a full city


Atikamekw - I no build fort here. 1500 Irish Catholics, fur, 7.69 ducats



Jan 8 - English rejection of annexation

I dispatch colonists to Hochelega, inland Quebec and beside Kwedech and Stadacona


Jan 28 - Colony established in Manahoc

Feb 1 -stability increase. NLD Calabar, next to Cameroon, Portugese

Mar 2 - My badboy is down to 1.8. If I don’t annex England, then I’d better be prepared for another war.

Apr 1 - Dominica is now a city



Dominica - I order a fort built here. 3501 tobacco Irish Catholics make us 7.64 ducats



May 31 - Slider time

I move us defensive. My leaders now get +1siege. I gained a Military engineer if I want to hire him (nope)


June 27 - Colony established in Hochelega

July 1 - NLD Kanawha, inland of Conoy, Manahoac and Susquehanna (and Monacan)

Oct 10 - England accepts annexation.



Okay, let’s look at the new lands


Aberdeen - Scottish, Protestant, 7669, fisher, 9.07 ducats, east of Fife and Scotland in Highlands. 9% rebel rate

Fife - Scottish, Reform, 8193, fish, 9.09 ducats, 9% too, west of Aberdeen, north of Lothian and Ayrshire, south of Highlands.

Lothian - 18788 Scottish Reform, 1284 ducats, 9%, fisher, temple, north of Cumbria, Northumberland, south of Fife, east of Ayrshire

London - 115655, English Catholics, 9%, 29.52 ducats, grain, temple, marketplace, next to Kent, East Anglia, Oxfordshire and Wessex.

Kent - 10255, English, 9%, Catholic, grain, temple, south of London, east of Wessex

Calais - 32443, Cosmopolitaine, Catholic, temple, fish, marketplace, customs house, west of Vlaanderen, northwest of Artois, Picardie, 12.28 ducats.


And that’s it. Not a lot of quality there other than London.

[Tellistto]

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

Administrata


And that’s it. Not a lot of quality there other than London.


I order another army built for London. The Scottish provinces get 64.5 ducats spend on them total for three Missionaries. This is going to piss them off, so both of my current armies are moving up there.

I send a few modest gifts to some of my other vassals. When this happens, other vassals drop to 100 loyalty.

Armies are:

London
Antwerp
Hainaut
Fife
Lothian
Unami


Okay, I spend some cash to integrate England into my nation, and I’ll spend some more on some modest gifts over the next year. But, I gained 6 provinces without declaring war.

I paid a down payment years and years ago when I took England as my vassal instead of getting massive amounts of land, with the hope that someday I could finish the job and get London. Well, it just came due.


Dec 11 - Land Network in London, Kent, Calais


Jan 2, 1534 - I send colonists to Mobile, Monacan


Jan 14 - Aberdeen converts. That was quick.

Feb 6 - NLD - Bayougoula

Feb 14 - NLD - Karankawa

Mar 16 - NLD - Tamaulipas

Mar 21 - NLD - Campeche - Maya

Mar 30 - NLD Chitimacha

Apr 1 - Kwedech is now a full p[rovince. Because it is next to natives, I order a fort



Kwedech - 1505 fur traders of Irish descent and Catholic worship make us 9.48 ducats annually. This province is next to Stadacona, Hochelega, Abnaki, Kespek, Pennacook, the unclaimed Pocumtuk, and at least one unseen native province.


Apr 10 - Rebels in Lothian and London

Apr 22 - Lothian ones destroyed

July 5 - Despite a 92% chance of taking, we fail to establish a colony in Monacan, so I send in more

Aug 14 - Mobile is now a colony

I lose in London

[Abe Sargent]

Who Wants MAPS?!?!?!?



Northern US and S Canada





Southern US

[Abe Sargent]

Oh, and here's Europe around us.

[Abe Sargent]

In Case you want it, here is a zoomed out view of Greenland and Canadia.

[Abe Sargent]

And, finally, zoomed out view of the Caribbean.

[Autumn]

Wow, that's wild. You're certainly succeeding in your original intent. Forget independence, Ireland's going for empire!

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Autumn

Wow, that's wild. You're certainly succeeding in your original intent. Forget independence, Ireland's going for empire!

Go Irish!

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Nov 1 - Epekwitk and Unamakik are now cores

Dec 6 - We win in London

Jan 16, 1535 - Monacan now a colony.

More rebels in London


Feb 1 - Guantanamo is now a city.


Guantanamo - 2004 Irish tobacco growing Catholics make us 6.27 ducats and I order a fort here.



Mar 1 - Now Moron


Moron - 2005 Irish Catholics grow Coffee and make us 6.27 ducats. I order a fort here too (Central Cuba)


Mar 8 - Rebellion in Fife

Mar 28 - Cotton in Susquehanna

Apr 14 - We win in London

Road Network in Aberdeen, Fife, and Lothian

I send colonists to Bayougoula (New Orleans area)

May 7 - Grain in Manahoac

June 2 - Colonists sent to Kanawha (West Virginia area)

July 28 - We win in Fife

Aug 5 - Nevers is again declaring independence from Burgundy

Oct 1 - Havana my latest colony to city


Havana - 1506 Irish Catholics farm tobacco, make us 8.27 ducats, and I order a fort here



Nov 1 - NLD - Mohawk, owned by Huron.

Dec 2 - Kanawha settled

Dec 8 - Bayougoula too

Apr 1, 1536 - My badboy is already down to 4.6. I may still have to wage war soon. I try to see if I can find a chance here or there.

May 9 - I get an event, with my government advisor publishing a great work. Before I make a choice, I spend 10 prestige to put France in my Sphere of Influence. We are so much more than they right now we can. I then choose to gain 10 prestige, and 15 ducats invested in govnt tech monthly for 10 years

May 22 - Minorities Flock to Lenape and it becomes a full province:



Lenape: 1762 Irish Reform, make and sell tobacco, yielding us 5.58 ducats. I order a fort. Currently under Religious Migration. Next to Unami, Delaware, Susquehanna, unsettled Mahican and an unknown inner province. (Eastern PA)


June 1 - Antwerp gets Promote Land Enclosures, +1 revolt risk there, and +10% tax/

Nov 4 - Land Enclosures in East Anglia

Dec 1 - Native raid in Hochelega. I send more colonists to shore it up

Jan 1, 1537 - Production tech Increase

Jan 16 - Pennacook expands and is is now a city


Pennacook - 2591, Irish Catholics, making naval supplies and supplying us with 4.33 ducats. Fort ordered. Next to Massachusetts, Abnaki, Kwedech, and unsettled Pocumtuk

[Abe Sargent]

A Short Diversion



Mar 23 - I lift the Excommunication of Milan

Apr 3 - Benign Neglect gives me another 100 ducats

I use the money to put Workshops in London and Kent

May 6 - Hochelega expandelaga

June 1 - Fur in Hochelega

July 1 - Land Tech increase. This brings with it the ability to build Level 2 forts for 108 ducats.

July 21 - Cotton in Mobile

July 26 - Cotton in Monacan

Aug 19 - A local commander has decided to upgrade his fortification and we get a level 2 fort in Ulster

Oct 1 - Land Enclosures in Gloucestershire

Oct 16 - I now have 7 Cardinals

Nov 3 - Rm with Aragon

Jan 8, 1538 - Awesome!!! I get a Boundary Dispute event. I choose to press it and gain a core on Berg, a Hesse province, and our relations drop. Hesse has done very well, with 14 provinces, but it is suffering massive problems with rebels. I can DOW Hesse, take Berg, and then meet peace, all with little Badboy

Berg is really inside though. It’s a bit more interior continental than I would normally like, but I have a core on it, so it’s virtually free.

Jan 29 - I gain 100 ducats off benign neglect again

Apr 1 - Cornwall is now a core

June 1 - Bayougoula is damaged so I send in more colonists to help

June 6 - Berg has fallen to rebels, so now it is time.

I DOW Hesse with a Reconquest CB

Everybody but Brittany is in on my end.

June 25 - One of my armies arrives at Berg

July 9 - Another army in Koln

July 15 - Berg falls to us after a quick assault. There were few rebels left behind after they just took it.

Aug 1 - The army from Berg has arrive in the Hesse capital of Hessen for a siege

Aug 14 - Failed assault on Koln

Sept 3 - Koln falls after another assault

Oct 7 - Hessen falls

Oct 30 - I capture Wutrzburg after a quick siege

Nov 24 - Bohemian troops (he is the HRE) recapture Hessen for Hesse

Dec 11 - We beat back a major Bohemian force besieging Friesland with my London army I snuck across.

Dec 16 - This other Bohemian army recaptured Wurzburg

Jan 7, 1539 - Bamburg falls to me

Jan 12 - Bayougoula expands and I send in more colonists

I accept a white peace from Brandenburg

Feb 2 - Peace with Berg. I wanted Koln too, but the war was becoming too problematic

Feb 5 - White peace with Bohemia


Berg - 22963, Reform Hessians, make and sell cloth, giving me 14.43 ducats. Because it is a core, no rebellions. Workshop and temple. Next to us in Limburg, Hesse in Koln, Westfalen, Hessen and Nassau. Next to Oldenburg in Munster

Extend Road Network in Berg

[Abe Sargent]

More War Against Brabant



Feb 14 - Land Enclosures in Yorkshire

I didn’t gain any badboy from that, btw, so my badboy is down to 1.2

I order a missionary to Berg

Apr 28 - Fish in Bayougoula

July 1 - Trade Tech increase

Aug 23 - Bayougoula expands

Aug 31 - With a 99% chance of taking initially, I send colonists to Nunavik, next to Ungava

Oct 1 - A level 5 Master of Mint has arrived in Abnaki. I choose not to hire him, but the reduction he brings to my inflation is tempting.

My current inflation is 16.5

Nov 6 - I send colonists to Susquehanna

Dec 1 - Gvnmnet Tech Increase

Jan 1, 1540 - Innu is now a core

Feb 1 - NLD - Ontario, inland of Kwedech and Huron. And Oneida, Huron and inland of Lenape and unsettled Mahican

My badboy will disappear in a few months. What do I have a CB against?

Dishonored Call vs. Brittany (they did not honor our alliance)
Reconquest on Auvergne, my vassal
Colonialism on Sweden, Aragon, Portugal and Castille
Holy War on Cherokee and Huron
Trade Dispute against Sweden, Austria and Castille
Colonial Conquest on all Primitives


Not a lot there. I’m not warring with Sweden, Castille, my own vassal, Portugal or Austria.

I could fabricate claims again. Who would I attack? Brabant? They have no allies.

Okay


Feb 10 - We have fabricated claims on Brabant


Feb 20 - Nunavik is now a colony

Mar 9 - Sweden has taken the name Scandinavia

Mar 11 - I DOW Brabant. All of my allies are in, and the HRE Bohemia joins Brabant. I have three armies in the Coast of Holland, Zeeland and Brabant, and I order them all into Brabant’s three provinces.

Apr 5 - We win a naval battle

Apr 15 - We lose against 12k Brabant in Gelre

Apr 18 - Breda falls after a quick assault

Apr 30 - Susquehanna expands and I send in more

May 6 - With the help of 6000 Oldenburg troops we win in Gelre

May 9 - 9000 Bohemian troops arrive at Berg and begin an assault

May 15 - Berg fell

May 31 - They arrive at Limburg

June 1 - We arrive there to protest their presence

I Introduce my Heir, just noticed I could

July 7 - We lose in Limburg, barely

July 11 - Utrecht falls to us

July 21 - Major naval victory in the Coast of Holland

July 24 - Gelre falls. I contact Brabant

I accept peace for 300 ducats, Utrecht and Gelre

I still have to fight off Bohemia


Aug 7 - One of my armies arrives in Limburg

Aug 30 - We win and force Bohemia away

Sept 2 - They accept white peace



Utrecht - 65700 Dutch Reformed cloth makers, 24.25 ducats, 9% revolt risk, temple, marketplace and workshop. Next to Holland, Gelre and Breda.


Gelre - 29939 Dutch Reformed, 8.2%, 1.9 from the grain farmers, temple and workshop, next to Utrecht, Friesland, Limburg, Breda, and the Oldenburg provinces of Osnabruck and Munster.


I send missionaries to both

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Road Network ordered in Gelre, Utrecht

Land Enclosures in Ulster

Sept 14 - grain in Kanawha

Oct 22 - Susquehanna now a full province


Susquehanna - 1504 cotton planters, Irish Catholic, make us 7.17 ducats. Fort ordered. West of Lenape, north of Conoy, Kanawha, south of Hurons in Onondaga, and east of some number of unknown provinces


Nov 10 - The Holy Roman Empire has become a Monarchy.

Jan 1, 1541 - Ayrshire, Yorkshire and Labrador are now cores

Feb 1 - I send colonists to Pocumtuk, Mahican, Connecticut and Narraganset (All around Massachusetts)

Mar 1 - Land Enclosures in Munster

July 2 - Lothian converts

Aug 9 - All four colonies are established

Sept 12 - Bavaria annexes The Palatinate

Oct 1 - I get a Border Friction CB vs. Hesse for Nassau and Koln.

Oct 6 - Protestantism spreads to Oxfordshire. I send a Missionary

Oct 20 - Rebels in Hainaut

Nov 3 - I move my National Focus to Massachusetts, and I just colonized four provinces beside it that get +50 people annually

I build a Post Office in Massachusetts

I build a COT in Massachusetts for 500 gold. I then send in merchants

Dec 11 - Rebels put down in Hainaut

Antwerp drops a bit to 813, and Massachusetts is at 446, so well worth doing

Jan 1, 1542 - Post Office in Pennacook

Apr 19 - I spend 5 prestige to cancel that mission that was going nowhere. What is the next one? Improve Defences in Tuscarora.

Not right now

June 12 - Rebels in Berg

July 9 - Victory in Berg

Aug 1 - Native attack in Hochelega, and I send in more colonists

I send a missionary to Kespek. This was one of my colonies that had gotten a bonus from non-Catholics

I move my colonial army from Unami to Kespek, just in case the small chance of rebels from this hits

Aug 9 - Rebels in Utrecht

Sept 1 - Road Network in Massachusetts and Pennacook

Nov 24 - Rebels in Calais

Jan 10, 1543 - We win in Calais

Jan 24 - Hochelega expands

Feb 6 - Utrecht converts

Feb 7 - Fortification Upgrade in Stadacona occurs

Feb 16 - Hainaut rebels

Mar 11 - Burgundy annexes Lorraine

Mar 19 - Rebels crushed

Apr 1 - NLD Allegheny, inland of Kanawha and Susquehanna

Apr 10 - Nunavik has naval supplies

I dispatch pioneers to Allegheny

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Quick Strikes



Apr 22 - Fur in Pocumtuk

May 1 - I put road networks in Connecticut and Narraganset

I Excommunicate Bohemia

May 15 - Fish in Narraganset

May 17 - Grain in Mahican

Oct 9- Rebellion in Aberdeen

Oct 19 - Odd. I have Cotton in Connecticut.

Oct 21 - Allegheny is now a colony

Dec 3 - Victory in Aberdeen

Jan 1, 1544 - Land Reform in Massachusetts

Feb 1 - Manahoac now city


Manahoac - 1602 Irish Catholic farmers, inland of Powhatan and Conoy, and east of Kanawha and Monacan. 4.14 ducats made here and I do order a fort


June 3 - RM with Provence

July 6 - Minorities flock to Kanawha


Kanawha - 1696 Irish Reform, farmers, 2.96 ducats, I build a fort. Beside the Cherokee Ohio and Cumberland provinces, west of Manahoac, Conoy, Susquehanna, south of Alleghany and an unknown province, north of Monacan. Religious Migration.


July 20 - I order a second army built here in the colonies

Sept 1 - Hochelega is now a full province


Hochelega - 1465 Irish Catholic fur trappers, make us 5.95 ducats, fort ordered inland of Stadacona and Kwedech, Huron in Ontario and at least another place.

I make about 150 annually from trade in my two COTs.

Dec 1 - Monacan is now a province


Monacan - 1509 Irish Catholic cotton pickers make us 2.72 ducats annually, and I order a fort here. It is next to three Cherokee provinces and four of mine, making it quite the little cross roads.

[Abe Sargent]

A Quick Interlude



Jan 12, 1545 -I burn all of my spies to kill two Portguese colonies within the Gulf of Mexico. It cost me about 75 ducats for them all, and I was never caught, (I had 86% chance of success and 31 of being caught)

Feb 1 - Wurzburg, Trier and Lorraine have all declared independence from Hesse,

Trier now separates Koln from the rest often Hesse provinces.

Bavaria has captured a bunch of Hesse provinces, and with this 5 now declaring independence, Hesse is down to 4 provinces. The past decade has not been kind to won of the early winners in this game.


My badboy is down to 2.9. Let’s take Koln

Feb 15 - I send colonists to Bayougoula

Feb 20 - Since no one has grabbed it, I send colonists to Guadeloupe

Land Enclosures in Massachusetts, Post Office in Mahican

Mar 15 - Minorities rush to Bayougoula.


Bayougoula - 2705 Irish Protestant, fisher, 4.98 ducats, Religious Migration. Fort is being built here. West of Mobile.


I do not know what will happen when those colonists arrive. Conversion? No clue


June 15 - Our peace with Brabant is up. I could take them and annex their final province. I can do that any time though, I think the time is ripe for Koln

Aug 13 - Kespek converts. I move the army to Kwedech

Aug 21 0 Guadeloupe is the newest Irish colony

Sept 2 - Berg converts

Oct 4 - Land Reform in Connecticut

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: The Year of Great Change, 1545-46 - Vol. 1 - Expansion by the Sword



Oct 18 - Time to piss off some people.


I Declare war, not in the lowlands, not against France, not against Sweden or Castille or Portugal. Not in Europe at all. I DOW the Hurons

Oct 23 - Bayougoula grew from the colonists, but did not convert.


Nov 14 - We capture Mohawk (no forts)

Dec 1 - Acadia and Stadacona are now cores

Dec 8 - One of my armies arrives in a newly discovered Seneca to attack a 12000 natives

Dec 26 - We win in Seneca and I order my army to chase them into the Terra Incognito

We captured Ontario

Jan 1, 1546 - My government tech advisor died. I spend 20 cultural tradition to make a five star trade tech one.

Jan 23 - We capture Huron, their capital

Jan 29 - We arrive in and discover Cayuga, and fight the fleeing Huron military

Feb 14 - We won and captured Cayuga

Feb 27 - We destroyed the fleeing army in Onondaga.

Mar 13 - We capture Oneida

Mar 31 - We discover and capture Ottawa

Apr 4 - We get an event New Trade Research in Heretical and I choose to lost 650 invested ducats in Trade as opposed to losing stability

June 4 - We discover and capture Niagara

Land Reform in Pennacook


We annex Huron. We gain over 15 prestige and only 2 badboy.

[Abe Sargent]

I am making a map of the new possession so you can see

I draw a black line around the new possessions so you can see where they are and how big they are. Here are the new colonies:

Mohawk
Oneida
Onondaga
Cayuga
Seneca
Niagara
Huron
Ontario
Ottawa

They are all Shamanist and experiencing revolution. They are almost all fur. Ontario is grain, the rest are fur. They are all in the 3000-5500 population range. They make us between 2.23 for Ontario’s grain and 5.88 for Onondaga. Some provinces are Huron, others Iroquois. They should move to my culture when they convert.

[Cap Ologist]

Ok, reading this has given me the urge to play. What version of EU3 are you playing/recommend?